(b Antwerp, 27 April 1699; d Antwerp, 9 or 10 Sept 1768). Son of (1) Jan Pieter van Baurscheit (i). By 1712 he was already enrolled in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp as a master sculptor (beltsnyder), while remaining active in his father’s workshop and occasionally designing altars for him. After his father’s death in 1728, Baurscheit was mainly employed as an architect, although he continued to make models in clay and ran a workshop of sculptors, who carved the decorative motifs for his buildings. Among his earliest works in the province of Zeeland are the Beeldenhuis (1730; façade reconstr. in the Hendrikstraat) and the van-Dishoeck-huis (1733; later the town hall; destr.; see NETHERLANDS, THE, fig. 8) in Vlissingen, and a patrician house (1733; damaged 1940) and a city gate, the Koepoort (1736–44), both in Middelburg. At about the same time, together with Daniel Marot I, he was engaged in work on the Hotel Huguetan (later the Royal Library) in The Hague. The façade is mainly Baurscheit’s work, for which he also supplied the elegant decorative sculptures.

Part of the Baurscheit family

• Baurscheit, Jan Pieter van (ii) (1699-1768)
  • Belgium, §IV, 3: Sculpture, c 1550–1830
  • collaboration
    • Marot: (2) Daniel Marot I
  • works
    • Antwerp, §I, 2: History and urban development, 1585–1830
    • Belgium, §II, 3(ii): Architecture, 1700–c 1830
    • Belgium, §VI, 2: Furniture, 1600–1800
    • Hague, The, §I, 2: History and urban development, c 1585–1813
    • Netherlands, the, §II, 3(iv): Architecture, c 1500–c 1795: French influence